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"As to decorative painting, only luck, instinct, and imitation alone serve as our guides at the present time; and nine times out of ten it would be difficult to say why such an ornament takes one form rather than another - why it is red and not blue.... One has what is called taste, and that suffices, it is believed, to decorate the interior of a structure with inspired clarity. In the decoration of architecture, we must confess that painting is perhaps the most difficult part, and that which demands the most careful calculation and the greatest experience."
Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814-1879.
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